Intelligence leaker in federal court facing charges under the Espionage Act



Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, is in federal court accused of being the source of a massive intelligence leak and facing multiple charges under the Espionage Act. NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell has the latest updates.

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33 comments

  1. Typical office process. The staff and the receptionist are the ones with access to reading and updating data.

    Management only sees monthly reports on the data when they attend catered meetings.

  2. Teenage friends on Discord , fascinating topic

  3. Anyone else caught with classified documents?
    Hint: They orange , walk free, cheat at golf and live a life of luxury.

  4. Chances are, this is just the fall guy.

  5. I wish he was Hillary Clinton he wound have gotten away with it 😂

  6. How quickly they moved in on this kid but Trump still gets a pass

  7. I’ve worked for ibm and other well known companies like apple as a contractor. IBM paid me a lot of money as a field tech but even if they didn’t, None of what they do internally would ever be exposed by me because number one, I don’t talk about my job outside of work. I don’t even wanna think about it once I’m off. IT ppl rightfully have the keys to everything but it’s been earned with years of service. I’ve made mistakes in my early career but I’ve never leaked “sensitive” data.

  8. Should this airman have the book thrown at him and suffer the consequences. If you are convicted of Espionage you could be sentenced to life in prison or face a death sentence. Members of the military who are convicted of the crime may receive the death penalty "or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct," according to the the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  9. Shout out to my old heads that remember the Twitter Files from back in the day🤐

  10. Wow they’re saying he’s patriotic! Well imagine what kind of secrets the soldier that is trying to destroy this once great country is giving away

  11. Hahaha 21 year old was hero of american !

  12. He did us a favor and kept us from WWIII

  13. Didn't take long for this traitor to be arrested and charged. Shame it didn't happen to the former guy. Only the rich get away with treason.

  14. Funny how the media attacks this kid but the leakers against Trump and his administration are said they are heroes and need protection. State run propaganda.

  15. This kid is a hero. Sad how the Media covers for this administration. Russians are obviously winning the war while peace should be the obvious answer. We have special forces operating in this war. The media has become a laughing stock they and this administration have been exposed. They are nothing more than state run propaganda.

  16. This was set up and staged simply so that the gubmint will have an excuse to pass the Restrict Act (aka Patriot Act 2.0). More monitoring, spying, and surveilling our communications. Goodbye any semblance of privacy. Welcome to more entrenched slavery.

  17. Amazing how anyone that exposes government corruption and lies to the public thru leaked documents goes to jail and this kid is the fall guy

  18. Throwing your life away to impress random losers on the internet…

  19. So when is it crooked’s turn to be charged with the same for her server in the bathroom? How is that not a national security threat? What about creepy and his son? Are we supposed to believe they’re not a danger to the American People. They all seem to be happy to, under the color of law, frequently, in a long train of abuses, infringe upon the People’s inherent, inalienable, indubitable, indefeasible rights, which according to the Declaration of Independence it’s self evident that these rights are granted to the People by GOD. They swore by oath they wouldn’t do that. If they violate their oaths and usurp authority never granted to them, how is that not an act of tyranny. When The People’s trustees and servants are acting like tyrants, how is that not treason? How is that not them attempting to overthrow the republican form of government that The People created for the benefit of themselves and their posterity? The People have all political power, and are the masters of their servants who are clothed with office. Why do the servants act like they’re the masters? Are The People derelict in their duties by not (peacefully and lawfully in the Love of The LORD JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth) holding their trustees and servants accountable?

  20. Why was a 20 year old a national guardsmen?

  21. everyone is ignoring the information that was leaked

  22. The espionage act is unconstitutional act is unconstitutional. This young man is a national hero and he did nothing wrong. The real criminals are in the Biden administration for sending troops to Ukraine without congressional approval

  23. Like Edward Snowden?…………………

  24. as the Dobbs leaker is protected ,, as BIDEN using classified documents to hold his trunk lid down on his vette, or the Binden Penn center turnstle admissision for walls of documents,,, to Hillary and her private server and bleach bit party!!! simply amazing what's passed off as equal justice under the law,,, his family needs to make it clear the kid is not suicidal or the next accident will happen!!! “I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather,” he continued at the time. “I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.” Bidens wisdom!!!!!!!!!!!

  25. Why are they showing some old picture of the kid?? The reds is more worried about the gov keeping their corruption hidden better then what the leaked info showed. It’s pretty clear that the press is pretty much useless because they are compromised, all of the corp press unfortunately.

  26. As usual, most young people think secret information rules are all a bunch of crap. Sooner or later somebody in the group would have bragged about what they doing and they would have been hacked. Is national security a joke? It wasn’t for them. Sooner or later his buddies who threw him under the bus 🚎 will face their own consequences.They will probably trip over each other trying to be the first to cut a deal.

  27. didn’t this all start on minecraft? or 😂?

  28. Donald Trump sold classified documents to Russia before the FBI. I speak Russian and state TV-1 showed the proof. When will he be charged with the same crime? The Rosenbergs were executed for that crime in 1953.

  29. Geee…how is what he did any different than why Trump did?

  30. Anyone else smell something foul here?

  31. Nobody is gonna talk about how he shared the classified information on a discord served called “thug shaker central” 😂😂😭

  32. Another distraction and should not be top secret the media should be reporting as in unbiased because we have been lied to